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say it: GRIM-uhs
grimace is a noun and verb meaning "a contorted facial expression". It is pronounced /ˈɡɹɪməs/ — GRIM-uhs. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a contorted facial expression
“she made a grimace at the prospect”
contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
“He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grimace come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.